普通心理学 英语课件.pptVIP

普通心理學第一章 第一章：The Nature of Psychology Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.(p.3) The term scientific means that the research methods used to collect data are: (1) unbiased and (2) reliable.(p.18) unbiased: emphasis on situational / personal causes. situational causes: reward (pizza) kids for reading. (the law of effect,p.1) personal causes: Whe the rewards were discontinued, the kids who received rewards suddenly lost interest in the math game (Greene,Sternbrg, Lepper, 1976). (2) reliable:Dozens of psychology experiments demonst